CVE-2008-3933

Upstream information

CVE-2008-3933 at MITRE

Description

Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.10.14 through 1.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet with crafted zlib-compressed data that triggers an invalid read in the tvb_uncompress function.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having low severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	3.3
Vector	AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Adjacent Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 422948 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SR:2009:001, published Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:30:36 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Sep 9 11:11:08 2024